Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "The Drydock - Episode 145" video.

  1. 44:16 Radar detection devices were famously used in battles of Kula Gulf, Kolombangara and Vella Lavella in 1943. by the Japanese (who did not have radar at the time) with some success.
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  2. 39:30 Atomic bombs cannot possibly end the war in 1945 unless USA can deliver them to bomb Japan. For that they at the very least need to capture the Marianas (since the potential bases in China get captured by the Japanese during the 1944. Operation Ichi-Go). And since people survived Hiroshima blasts even mere hundreds of meters away from ground zero by simply happening to be in a basement of a reinforced concrete building, the idea of dropping a nuke on heavily fortified Saipan (which is a sizeable island) and then simply disembarking to take it is absurd (if anyone thinks that would work). Also US could only produce 1 nuke every 2 weeks at the time. However what DOES get Japan to surrender in 1945. with or without nukes (as it historically did) was the Soviet intervention which ruined all Japanese hopes for a negotiated peace and rendered all subsequent resistance by Japan completely pointless.
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  4. 14:57 If you include pre-dreadnoughts 1905. is not a bad candidate either, although it should be clarified whether to include captured capital ships (one might even be tempted to count them twice as that is how much they change the balance of power tally), whether scuttling to avoid imminent capture counts as "sunk in battle" and whether to count obsolete capital ships (not counting them should exclude Kilkis and Lemnos too for 1941). Russian pre dreadnoughts lost in 1905 : at Port Arthur: 1 scuttled 2 captured (not counting 2 more sunk by howitzers during 1904. but refloated and repaired by the Japanese in 1905.) at Tsushima (including obsolete pre-dreadnoughts of the 3rd Pacific squadron): 6 sunk 1 scuttled 4 captured Total in 1905: 6 sunk 2 scuttled 6 captured (+2 in sunken condition). PS in 1944 it was not Jean Bart but Dunkerque that was scuttled.
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  5. 51:02 At the Battle of Texel during the Third Anglo-Dutch war, commanders of both fleets' rear divisions, Edward Spragge and Cornelis Tromp (personal enemies) clashed so furiously with each other that they both had to shift flag twice - with Spragge getting killed while shifting the second time, when the boat which was transferring him to his would-be third flagship was hit by a cannonball.
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